Notices by JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnozAHKTz9o the thing about "clearing the uncanny valley" is that the audacity with which various teams claim they've done it is nearly perfectly inversely proportional to how badly they've stumbled straight into it. and this same cycle has repeated for decades now.
meanwhile, pixar et al have been content to confidently hold a sick handplant at the near edge of the valley, with well-acted stylized characters. at some point you have to ask what ideologies are being upheld here.

@mcc @RahulVadhyar @nicknicknicknick some dev out there installing random stuff from their 32 bit x86 program to C:\Program Files (PPC)\ and C:\Program Files (ARMv7)\ as a kind of power move

i have never in my life heard turkish delight referred to as "Narnia Cubes" but this is probably what i'm calling em from now on

@arstechnica [slams dick in car door and continues to tank profits] masterful gambit, sir. here's a $60 billion CEO pay package.

@arstechnica man i hope big N gets their bottoms paddled so hard for this

@foone funnily enough, i vastly prefer Satisfactory because none of its hostile aliens attack your structures (just you, when you go exploring), so there's no entropy acting on your setup, just your own ability to plan and execute. killing roaches to keep them off your stuff feels too much like "meetings" to me, so I prefer the builder games that elide that.

Was reminded recently that Discord has taken nearly $1 billion in VC cash: https://tracxn.com/d/companies/discord/__5rlLgsamoGCjo5gATenpy383J_jyBToAQkMl2B_f99w
No judgment if you've already built a community there, but everyone really needs to treat it as a ticking time bomb. It's already failed its users many times over; it's just a question of when those failures will escalate beyond even the most indifferent user's tolerance. Every community deserves better. Good alternatives are a survival imperative.

@arstechnica this is like that obscurely-famous photo from someone who ordered a router and received a router box whose only contents were a bag of dirt with "PUTO" written on it

@torproject web3/crypto is an extremely untrusted space for very thoroughly proven reasons, and you are dealing massive damage to public trust in your project by associating with it.